News from July 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Also Admitted Knocking Out a Woman by Striking her with a Gun.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: ST. MARYS, GA - On Wednesday July 7, 2021, Cumberland Island National Seashore and Fort Frederica National Monument will close visitor facilities and grounds for the safety of visitors and staff, due to Tropical Storm Elsa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty today to filing two dozen fraudulent unemployment insurance claims, which were approved for more than $250,000 in unemployment benefits from the Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation (DETR) and California Employment Development Department (EDD).
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - James Wesley Safrit, 33, of Newport, N.C. was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney to 120 months in prison for the online enticement of a minor, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Whitney also ordered Safrit to register as a sex offender and to serve 25 years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: A Florida man and member of the Oath Keepers was arrested Friday for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK CITY - Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Ariel Tavarez, a/k/a “A," a/k/a “Mike," pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, and a fentanyl analogue, and to distributing narcotics...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Roswell, N.M. - Beginning this week, and continuing through September, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will conduct prescribed fire operations about 10 miles northeast of Ruidoso and 6 miles southeast of Capitan in Lincoln County. The 714-acre Zamora slash pile unit is located within the Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - Beginning July 8, the Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division (MSP/EMHSD), FEMA, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and local officials in Wayne County will be conducting joint preliminary damage assessments due to the flooding that occurred in late...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: PAGE, Ariz. - The Bureau of Reclamation urges those recreating on or along the Colorado River through Glen and Grand canyons to exercise increased caution as summer energy demands may cause rapid changes to the river’s flow.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - Today, the Bureau of Reclamation announced the selection of Tonya Hart as the Regional Engineer of the Lower Colorado Basin Region. In this capacity, she oversees and provides direction for the Region’s engineering activities in Arizona, Southern Nevada and Southern California. Additionally, she oversees the operations and maintenance of Reclamation’s Boulder City campus.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Dear Secretary Cardona: We write in support of the U.S. Department of Education’s (“Department") regulatory agenda to provide relief to federal student loan borrowers. As part of the upcoming negotiated rulemaking process, we encourage the Department to pursue policies that reduce disparities in the...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: AVON, N.Y., July 6, 2021 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development today announced USDA is investing $21 million to provide broadband service in rural areas in New York without sufficient access to broadband. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has doubled the number of work shifts for employees in glovebox operations at the Savannah River Site (SRS) to advance DOE ’s mission of removing plutonium from South Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced today that the Committee will hold a fully virtual Member Day Hearing on issues within the Committee’s jurisdiction in the 117th Congress on Tuesday, July 13, at 11 am (EDT). The...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the Committee will hold a fully virtual Member Day Hearing on issues within the Committee’s jurisdiction in the 117th Congress on Tuesday, July...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Cornelius Hendrix, age 19, of Starkville, Mississippi, pleaded guilty today to arson within special maritime and territorial jurisdiction.
